"Steve Freides" > wrote in message
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> Ophelia wrote:
>> "Steve Freides" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Tara wrote:
>>>> I found out yesterday afternoon that my kids need to bring a dozen
>>>> breakfast items each to a chorus breakfast party tomorrow at 7:45.
>>>> Our cupboards are rather low at the moment because I have been
>>>> trying to use up what we have on hand to make way for Christmas
>>>> cooking. I don't have any eggs or breakfast meat on hand.
>>>>
>>>> I do not want to go to the store. My first thought was to pick up a
>>>> big box of doughnut holes on the way to school in the morning, but I
>>>> don't want to bring in sweets. There will already be plenty of
>>>> pastries brought in.
>>>>
>>>> So, I am making mini peanut butter and jelly sandwiches -- PB & J
>>>> cut into triangles. We have a peanut allergy in the chorus, so I
>>>> am also making cheese biscuits. I thought about pinwheel
>>>> sandwiches or mini cheese quesadillas.
>>>>
>>>> Ta-da! Not exciting, but it will serve.
>>>>
>>>> Tara
>>>
>>> You have to find out how severe the peanut allergies are. Some
>>> children are so allergic that you can't bring in anything with
>>> peanuts on the off chance that they'll have even minor contact with
>>> it somehow. My wife's school (grades 5 through 8) manages this by
>>> the class, e.g., if someone in the class has a peanut allergy, then
>>> no one in that class brings in anything with peanuts for any group
>>> activity like the one you're describing. One child with an even
>>> more severe allergy can mean that no one in the class can bring in
>>> peanuts in any form, period, while a milder allergy might mean it's
>>> OK to bring in peanuts as long as everything is clearly identified -
>>> that's the sort of thing where a child might have only a mild
>>> allergy. Good to ask about this sort of thing - it's probably something
>>> they
>>> sent home a letter/email about in September.
>>>
>>> A pain, I know, but those are the facts on the ground these days.
>>
>> I've read of that happening here too. Some parents complain but they
>> wouldn't do so if it were their child with an allergy. Those
>> allergies can kill
>
> True, unfortunately. But there are all sorts of degrees of allergy. E.g.,
> I play for one of my wife's classes (we're both music/theater people and
> it's a musical theater thing where I play piano) and one child has a nut
> allergy of some sort but it's not life-threatening, apparently, so
> everyone just tries to bring in things he can eat, but if someone messes
> up, we don't have to clear the room, he just has to be told not to eat
> that particular item. He doesn't require that the ingredients list says
> it wasn't made in a facility that doesn't process nuts, which some people
> do require.
>
> As I think I've mentioned here before, I know someone whose child is so
> dairy-allergic that if he has cream in his coffee in the morning and
> kisses his child on the cheek at 5 PM, the child has a reaction. There
> but for the grace ...

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